Re: Logical Logs - store on tape, disk or to /dev/null?

In article <6qemtk$b5p$1@news00.btx.dtag.de>, Stephan Stresing <triple- p.sst@t-online.de> writes >Hi, >recently I posted the onconfig of one of our client sites and one >comment I got was, if we were really not interested in the logical >logs because LTAPEDEV is set to /dev/null. This made me post this >message because I want to know how you handle this: are 2 tape devices >connected to your servers or are you storing the logs to disk? We have >set this option to /dev/null because our client only has 1 tape device >(changer) and usually they need it for the regular backup (filesystem >as well as database). >At our site we write the logs to disk and back them up every night, so >if we need them, we could restore them from our normal filesystem back- >up set. >Now, it's your turn... :-) How do you handle this kind of "problem"? 3 tape drives - UNIX full backup - Informix level 0 archive - Log tape >TIA, > many regards, > Stephan. -- David Williams Maintainer of the Informix FAQ Primary site (Beta Version) http://www.smooth1.demon.co.uk Official site http://www.iiug.org/techinfo/faq/faq_top.html I see you standin', Standin' on your own, It's such a lonely place for you, For you to be If you need a shoulder, Or if you need a friend, I'll be here standing, Until the bitter end... So don't chastise me Or think I, I mean you harm... All I ever wanted Was for you To know that I care